Re: [trinity-users] Upgrades to TDE 3.5.13 ...

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Timothy Pearson>> <kb9vqf@...> wrote:>>>>>> Most likely you will have to wait for the next release. I assume you>>> have>>> bug reports in for the problems you are experiencing?>>>>>> Tim>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Tim,>>>> Although Trinity is great and is already very stable, you had>> previously recognized that the TDE 3.5.13 release lacks some>> polishing.>>>> So, if some bugs and corrections are being done by the devs, why not>> let the users get them now, instead of waiting 6 or more months?>>>> The point here, is that with Debian, people are used to get new>> upgrades, new versions, and more important, bug corrections via>> apt-get, _all the time_.>>>> So, maybe Trinity lacks here is a maintainer for the Debian packages,>> so that they can been regularly upgraded, at least if not with new>> features, with bug corretions and general polishing??>>>> Thanks.>>>> At this point it is a combination of several factors:> 1.) What you have mentioned already; that is, I am the defacto Debian> maintainer and don't have much free time. QuickBuild should allow an> interested maintainer to step up and start working on this part of the> project without much difficulty.> 2.) The fixes simply aren't in GIT yet. The GIT transition is scheduled> to be finished by the end of December.> 3.) During the GIT transition we are renaming a bunch of *KDE* strings to> *TDE*. This makes it extremely difficult to fire off a build from the> sources in GIT and actually have it work with the 3.5.13 builds. Instead,> someone would have to be willing to cherry pick the patches into the> Debian build files for 3.5.13, and remove any renaming that has already> been completed.>> To summarize, in principle I would love to see SRUs for the main supported> distributions. In practice we need more manpower to see it happen. ;-)>> Tim>
Yes, now I understand why there will be no upgrade to 3.5.13.
But it seems it's not a comfortable situation for TDE, it's a circle:
without resource$ that leads to manpower, Trinity does progress very
slow, BUT if it progresses slow, large corporations or else that can
sponsor TDE development will run away.
May I gave a suggestion?
Why not make a release, 3.5.14, in early January, after the move to
Git and the rename thing is completed??
Even if it cures only a small bunch of bugs, it will be good, in many respects.
I don't know about others, but for myself, I can wait till January,
but I will not wait for six months to have some needed polishing done,
and will go away from TDE.
What you think?